The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-04-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK

The gross public debt of Canada on
March 21st, was $27o, 100000 and the
net debt 1921 100000.
The gold and silver output of the
Black Hills mining region of Dakota last
year was So, 3,179,O75.87.
The steamer Laraina was wrecked off
Bonifacio, Corsica, on the 18th and one
hundred and fifty lives lost.
Two young ladies were burned to death
on the 18th at Seven Mile Fork, Va, and
three other persons fatally injured.
A party of Mormon missionaries rust
ling for recruits at Mountain, N. c., were
badly beaten by the citizens and driven
into Georgia.
\ dispatch from Rome says papal
brief IN favor Of recognition Of the Knights
Of Labor will be published before Cardi-
nal Gibbons departure.
About fifty dealers in oleomargarine
were arrai igned in the court of general
sessions in New York on Tuesday and
plead guilty to violating the law They
were fined $50 to 500 each.
Edward A Mosely, Of Boston, has been
elected secretary of the interstate com
merce commission. He is democratic
member of the Massachusetts legislature
and one of the committee on railroads.
Brigadier General Orlando B. Wilcox
has been placed upon the retired list on
account of having reached the age of 81
years. COL Wesley Merritt, has been ap-
pointed Brigadier General to succeed HIM.
Lieut. John w. Danncha uer, the Arctic
explorer, shot and killed himself at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, on
the 26th. He had had mental troubles
ever since returning from the Arctic re-
gions.
Secretary Whitney has awarded to the
Bethlehem Iron works of Pennsylvania
contracts for furnishing about $4,000 tons
of steel gun forgings and 4,5O0 tons of
steel armor plates, at a total cost of $4,-
512,93s.
Two Mormons have been indicted at
Evanston for unlawful cohabitatlon and
will be tried. These are the first cases of
the kind IN Wyoming. United States
Attorney Campbell will give them his
special attention.
Pennsylvania officials declare that the
reports as to tie value Of the goods stole
by employees Of the Panhandle road has
been greatly exaggerated. They state
that the total loss will not exceed SIS 1000,
instead Of 100000.
A fire which occurred in the calico
print works at Dover, n. H., caused loss
of 100000, and threw 800 operatives
out of employment. The roof and floors
fell into the cellar within thirty minutes
after the alarm was given.
BY the bursting of a water tank con-
tanning 100000 gallons OF water five per-
sons were killed and several injured, at
Palatinc, Ill. The accident occurred on
the Northwestern railroad when crowd
were standing under the tank.
The great soap making firm of Proctor
g. Gamble. of Cincinnati, have arranged to
divide the profits of the firm among their
employees every six months, after allowing
the proprietors reasonable salaries and SIX
per cent on the capital invested.
The jury in the Haddeck murder trial
which had been in progress several weeks
failed to agree and stood II for acquittal
and 1 for convection. They were dis
charged. 1t is believed the jury was IN
f1uenced with money by both the defense
and prosecution.
A syndicate composed Of Chicago capi-
talists and United States army officers,
has purchased tract of 100000 acres
living in the States Of Coahuila, Durango
and Chihauhau, in northern Mexico.
This tract lies in productive cotton
growing district.
Schwartz and Watts, two brakemen, ar
rested and tried on circumstantial evidence
for the murder of express messenger
Nichols, on the Rock Island road last
summer, were found guilty by the jury
and sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
The case will be appealed.
Alexander Mitchell, president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway
system died on the 10th inst, at the Hoft-
man house in New York. The imme-
diate cause of his death was heart disease.
He leaves a widow and son, and about
$25 100000 worth of property. The
flourlshing town of Mitchell, Dakota, was
named in honor of the deceased.
A special from Chattanooga, Tennessee,
says Jim Bates, desperate, said to have
been the slayer of ten men was killed on
the Sth in Polk county. He was serving
a life sentence in the Georgia penitentiary,
but escaped few years ago and during